Officials said the error is likely too minute for the general public to clock it, but it could affect applications such as critical infrastructure, telecommunications and GPS signals.

When a massive windstorm in Colorado last Wednesday indirectly disconnected more than a dozen atomic clocks from their system, it threw out the US official time standard. These touchstone atomic ...

Atomic clocks went out of sync after a severe windstorm knocked out power at a Denver laboratory and a backup generator ...

The affected atomic clocks, mainly hydrogen masers and cesium beams, are essential for determining UTC(NIST), with 10 to 15 of them typically in active use at the Boulder laboratory.